Why work for us?

The UK Sports Institute (UKSI) provides world-leading sports science and medicine support to Olympic and Paralympic sports across the UK. We work with the most talented athletes in Great Britain and are always looking for ambitious and driven employees to support us with this.

Career development opportunities

Professional development

We believe that continuously developing everyone in the organisation is critical to our on-going success. We place a great deal of emphasis on creating opportunities for everyone to extend their knowledge whilst acquiring skills, experience and qualifications.

Combined with the unique experiences of working in Olympic and Paralympic sporting environments, we provide people with the opportunities to develop and achieve successful careers in high performance sport.

Commitment to our people

Flexible working

Achieving a healthy work:life balance

We pride ourselves in being able to offer our employees with a wide range of working arrangements that balance their commitments and help achieve a healthy work:life balance. This enables us to retain the very best talent in the world whilst delivering world class services to elite athletes.

At the UK Sports Institute we recognise that one size doesn’t fit all and we are agile enough to accommodate employees changing personal and professional circumstances to enable them to be the best they can be.

Benefits

What we offer

We strongly believe in investing in our people and their wellbeing and this is reflected in the extensive suite of employees benefits we offer.

Learning and development
Professional memberships
Comprehensive health plan
Cycle to work scheme
Generous parental and family leave
Competitive Pension Scheme
Occupational sick pay
Kit and equipment
29 days annual leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Life cover
Retail offers and discounts

DISABILITY CONFIDENT EMPLOYER

The UK Sports Institute is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

Please head to our Accessibility page to see what we are committed to.

LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER

The UK Sports Institute is a Living Wage Employer.

This accreditation demonstrates our commitment to paying the real Living Wage to people who work for the UK Sports Institute.

Feedback

What our employees say

The UK Sports Institute conducts an annual employee survey to gather feedback from our people on how we might be able to improve the organisation and positively impact the individuals within it. Here are some quotes and statistics from the survey we ran in 2020:

"Hard to say anything specifically that would make a positive impact on my work as I feel the UK Sports Institute do a great job already"

“I feel very lucky to be part of UK Sports Institute at this present time.”

“I feel that wellbeing is managed well and can't be improved upon at this stage.”

"Communications is done well now and should be maintained"

Here are some statistics from the survey we ran in 2020:

of employees feel proud to work at the UK Sports Institute

of employees have confidence in the UK Sports Institute Leadership Team

of employees feel supported by their Line Manager